Wow, what a story. First episode of this anime is really awesome. You have known it from other reviews? But it’s a fact. I’m really impressed because of first episode. Let me tell you special synopsis for the first episode. So, this Kotoura-san is a daughter of certain rich family. She’s a single daughter exactly and she doesn’t have another sister neither brother. So, she’s like godsend for her parents. Godsend huh? It seems The God sends other gift to Kotoura’s family besides herself. Actually, she is an esper. I mean, someone with particular special ability. For real. She can read not only book but also mind. So she can easily understand about somebody’s thinking. It means she’s a walking lie detector. She started demolishing someone’s lie and first victims of course are her parent. She told about her father’s dishonest words. Then her mother’s getting mad to him. Not different from her father, a lot of her mother’s lie were also revealed by her. As the result, her parents are divorced. It makes Kotoura really sad and her mother started hating her. Actually, that isn’t she wants. She is just trying to make someone be honest. But the fact is human beings are too cruel. They prefer to do a lie than honest. They’re happy with their dishonest and acting look like nothing happened. Something that can’t be accepted by Kotoura since she knows the truth. She’s abandoned by her mom. All of her family hates her a lot except her grandpa. Her grandpa’s really gentle and nice person. He accepts Kotoura something in common and never blames her for a single matter that she has. But she can’t stop her special ability because she thinks that she’s not wrong to reveal someone’s lie. She was bullied a lot when she was in the school because of her abnormality. Like I said before that humans are to cruel. They will deny their lie even it’s true. Kotoura become a sorrowful girl and no one wants to be her friend. They’re too scared if Kotoura reveals their dishonest. They think she’s monster. She has spent whole of her life without something meaningful and she assumes it’ll be like this for her entire life remaining. Fortunately, Kotoura’s patience is not for nothing. Finally, she meets with a strange perverted boy named Manabe. Why is he so strange? Well, he is the kind of person who always tells everything in his mind without any addition. Ya, it means he’s really honest man. And it’s so strange in Kotoura’s eyes because she never meets with someone like this before. Terrible isn’t it? When honest people became so rare. Even Kotoura almost doesn’t believe this kind of person exist. The dark life of Kotoura alters to brighter little by little. The hope that she always wishes is slowly getting real.
So, I think that’s pretty good for starting of an anime especially in the first episode. What’s about next episode until end? It’s like water and oil. You’ll get something really really different after watching it. Suddenly this anime alters into four-coma anime that serves not more than kiddy jokes. It’s true than the character of Kotoura develops a lot during the story’s shown. But the executions of this anime are very bad. Hey, Japanese story is well known as perfect combination between serious and gag things right? So agree with it. But not this one. I think this anime can be better if there aren’t some kind of kiddy jokes. I mean, we want something more dramatic in this story. There’s an arc which tells she had a conflict with her other classmate named Moritani. Moritani was so envy with her because she get so much attention and affection from her beloved friend, Manabe. Moritani ordered some her people to teach Kotoura about who’s the boss here. Unfortunately they had a mistake about the target. The innocent Manabe became a victim. They have some serious fight and the result is Manabe was hospitalized. Since Kotoura can read people’s mind she blames herself because all of this and then ran away into her private mansion in the far away place. I guess it’ll be a serious conflict. But the way out of this arc is unbelievably poor. This arc’s just ended by Moritani’s apology to Kotoura without any dramatically problem solving. Is this strange if someone wants to apologize to the other? Absolutely no. But I think it’ll be a hundred times better if there’re some final clash between Kotoura and Moritani. At least let Kotoura makes Moritani accept her fault and then apologizing to her.
Here some my opinion
Plus :
- Great concept of story. You know people are basically evil and never want someone be special. This is general plot that has made other anime in the great success.
- Great moral value. Never despair if you have bullied a lot because of your abnormality. Don’t give up and you’ll find something great on your life as a prize.
Minus :
- Poor executions of anime. Why should this Kotoura-san be so a cheap four-comma anime?
- Bad jokes. Really unwise if anime with this rate of concept serves such as kiddy humor
So, 1 great episode vs 11 fail episode. I should not give a high score for this anime. 6 is enough
